Posted on 10/23/2017 6:54:08 AM PDT by rktman
As Democratic leaders such as Hillary Clinton call for elimination of the Electoral College, a Harvard professor who launched a brief, dark-horse Democratic presidential bid last year, is preparing to file a lawsuit challenging the way the nation elects its presidents.
Lawrence Lessig’s suit doesn’t propose getting rid of the Electoral College, which would require a constitutional amendment, but he contends the winner-take-all system used by 48 states in awarding electors unfairly focuses the presidential races on a handful of battlegrounds.
The professor – who tried to persuade 20 Trump electors to break rank and vote for Clinton a week before the Electoral College vote last December – wants to implement a system in which electors cast ballots based on a proportion of the popular vote a candidate receives.
“With a winner-take-all, most of America is ignored,” Lessig said, according to FoxNews.com, contending the system violates the 14th Amendment’s one-man-one-vote principle.
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You might be on to something there....
They want it changed because “they” can’t win any more.
I propose that only those who pay taxes can vote...............
Wasn’t 2nd place originally designated vice-president?
A good way to get your way. Sue somebody. They think the courts will bail them out. I think most normal people are out to lunch when judges get picked.
LOL! If they do it our way they still won’t win any more. Not that we necessarily win with the current crop of CONgress critters. Republicrats or dementocrats.
The founding fathers wanted every STATE to have a vote. Not every COUNTY.
I wish I had more faith in the American people to do the right thing. But beyond Trump, there is little hope for this country.
I think I would like an election where all electoral votes are allocated by how voters in that district decide. Here in Illinois my vote is wasted every presidential election thanks to the weight of that big tumor called Chicago that sucks the life out of the rest of the state.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
So this Lawrence Lessig moron wants moonbats and illegal aliens in Los Angeles and New York to “elect” the president. Yeah, he knows better than the founding fathers. His stupid “suit” is absurd; he has no standing.
Isn’t Lessig part of that nutjob group with Julia whats her name from Newsweak who have floated this idea:
Trump resigns because of so-called Russian “meddling.”
Pence becomes president, then because he is “tainted, Pence resigns.
Paul Ryan becomes president. In a gesture of “fairness,” Ryan picks Hillary Rotten Clinton to be his vice president.
Ryan resigns. Hitlery becomes president.
Lessig and other moonbats believe this insanity is a viable plan. I don’t know what drug they’re taking, but it should be banned.
I propose only veterans should vote. /Heinlein.
If they pass the tax deal(yeah, right) that could reduce the voters eligible.
The states that do not like the electoral college should agree to the majority of each congressional district picking the elector for that district.
So California and New York would be reliably split, with some of the electors from those states going to the Republican candidate.
Seems fair to me. California, New York, put your scheme into law in your states!
He can go to that Hawaiian idiot and get the moon ruled to be the sun if he wants.
One state, one vote?
They also left it to each state to determine how to choose its electors. Any state that wishes to can implement this guy’s plan.
The same could be said of California.
I live in Maine which apportions it’s electoral votes like Nebraska....the only two states that do so.
Trump won the second congressional district, which covers 80% of Maine, and received one electoral vote. Pickles Clinton won the first congressional district, for another electoral vote. Madame Hillary won the state-wide vote by 2.7% (some say she stole it). Winning the state-wide vote netted her two additional electoral votes.
Imagine if California, with more than fifty congressional districts, were to do this. Fat chance.
Same in most states where a YUGELY populated city can screw the rest of the state in a heart beat. Nevada/lasvegas as example.
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